bootcamp02a

SAI Administrators Technology Boot Camp 2a

February 2, 2010

Review

• Does everyone have e-mail access?
• Blogger.com (what's your blog URL?)
  • Scott McLeod's NEA presentation - URL
  • Scott McLeod's NEA presentation - slideshow
• Take a screenshot of your post and e-mail it to Scott [Jing]
• Administrators on YouTube
• The School Administrator's Guide to Blogging
• YouTube Quick Capture
  • YouTube Quick Capture Help
  • Roger Wilcox!
• The School Administrator's Guide to Blogging
• Questions about Google Docs, Technorati, bit.ly, Skype, Flickr, or Animoto?
• Promote your Blog
• Blog: Importing and exporting blogs to another blogsite

1 to 1 Schools Information

• Iowa 1 to 1 Network
• 1 to 1 schools blog
• FREE registration for 1 to 1 conference on April 7

RSS

• Google Reader
• Google Reader tips
• Organizing your feeds
• New feature - Subscribe to individual pages
• Sharing your feeds
• Moving Forward - Blogs and Subject-Specific Blogs
• CASTLE's list of great blogs for busy administrators

Microblogging

• Twitter
• Using Twitter as a listening station
• @mcleod Twitter lists
• Making your own list

Monitoring

• Google Alerts
• Manage your alerts
• Advanced Google Search
• Advanced News Search
• Help: Basic Google Search
• Help: More Google Search

Scheduling

• Google Calendar
  • Help
  • Sharing
  • Embedding to a webpage
  • Event publisher
  • iCal
• TimeBridge
• Doodle

Wikis

• Video - Wikis in Plain English
• Wikipedia Asphalt
• Wikified Schools
• Wikispaces Sandboxes (must create a Wikispace account):
  • Sandbox 1: http://sandbox1bootcamp.wikispaces.com/
  • Sandbox 2: http://sandbox2bootcamp.wikispaces.com/
  • Sandbox 3: http://sandbox3bootcamp.wikispaces.com/
• Wikispaces
• Wikispaces Video Tutorial
• Wikispaces Help
  • Setting Permissions
  • Name & Copyright
  • Discussion pages in Wiki

Podcasting

• Video - Podcasting in Plain English
• Audacity
• Audacity LAME MP3 Encoder Plug-In
• Audacity Video Tutorial
• Audacity Tutorials
• Blog Talk Radio
  • FAQ
• Cinchcast

Social bookmarking

• Video - Social Bookmarking in Plain English
• Delicious
• Delicious Video Tutorial
• Delicious Help
• Bookmarklet
• Install Firefox addon

Miscellaneous technology tools

• iGoogle
• Readability
  • See also InstaPaper and Read It Later
• Text substitution
  • Phrase Express or Texter (Windows)
  • TextExpander (Mac) $
  • TypeIt4Me (Mac) $
• SlideShare
• VoiceThread
  • See also the VoiceThread 4 Education wiki
• Zamzar
• Google Moderator
• Dropbox
• Mozy
• Wordle
• Visual Thesaurus
• LastPass

Wrap-up

• End-of-day survey